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Batch-Capture Screenshots Of Entire Webpages, Select Regions Or HTML Tags

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While browsing the internet, we often come across information that we want to save or share. If it's just text or individual images, one can simply copy them directly. Though if you want to save whole web pages as images, URL2JPEG saves you the hassle of using your screenshot tool for the purpose, meaning you don't have to edit the image to remove parts of the browser itself from it. The tool can save a whole webpage, an HTML block or a manually-selected portion within it to a file or your clipboard. It works in three simple steps: enter the URL of your desired page, select what part of it you want, and save it to your PC. You can also capture multiple webpages simultaneously in a batch with URL2JPEG’s helpful Scripting option. To top it off, there's also the option to capture screenshots of multiple sites by specifying a whole IP range. More details after the jump. Read More

Save Screenshots To The Cloud & Access Them From Anywhere With Screen-shot.me

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Although we mostly use Greenshot and Shotty here at the AddictiveTips for our nearly all our screenshots on Windows, there are countless other screenshot apps out there too, coming in a myriad of shapes and sizes. Today, we have an interesting app at your disposal that will not only let you take screenshots, but also sync them directly to the cloud. Screen-shot.me is a Windows app supporting a minimal design and a few handy features. It can take screenshots, presents them to you in its basic editor, and let you upload them to the cloud. This can help you take screenshots on one PC and grab them on another without having to use flash drives for the purpose, in case you are working with multiple computers. Read More

Postimage Offers Screen Capture With Quick Sharing & Annotation Tools

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Both Windows 7 and Windows 8 ship with a Snipping Tool out of the box to facilitate users in taking screenshots of any on-screen activity. This tool allows you to capture and store images in full screen, windowed, rectangular and free-form modes. Although the native solution suffices for the job, if you’re looking for an alternative tool with more flexibility and options like screenshot annotation, and social media integration, try Postimage. This lightweight tool quietly sits in the system tray and can be brought into action using its context menu or predefined hotkeys. Read More

Screenink Is A Screenshot App With Powerful Layered Annotation & Freehand Selection

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Screenink is an app for Mac and Windows that lets you capture screenshots of your full screen or any defined area of it. Unlike conventional screenshot apps that limit a custom area to fit in a rectangle or square shape, Screenink lets you draw out a custom shape on your screen and capture all content within it. It also gives you an on-screen protractor and ruler that allows you to measure both the length, width, and angle of anything on your screen. You can draw shapes, enter text, and use the app’s very own color picker to select a color from the screen. The app adds an always-on-top toolbar to the screen and a pencil-like icon to the Menu Bar that allow you use its many tools. It supports keyboard shortcuts as well for quickly performing its functions. Screenink's Mac app is available for $0.99 in the Mac App Store, while the Windows version costs $2.00. Read More

RecordMyScreen Is A Free Alternative To Display Recorder For iPhone

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With the passage of time, it becomes impossible for any popular iOS app to maintain its monopoly in the App Store. Sooner or later, there are bound to be some competitors out there, trying to outdo the older apps in terms of functionality and interface. It might have taken a long time, but the Display Recorder app finally has a worthy alternative. For a brief period of time, Ryan Petrich's screen recording app did have a clone in the App Store, but Apple pulled it pretty quickly. Now, however, RecordMyScreen has been released in the Cydia store, and it is anything but a clone of Display Recorder. The app records your iPhone’s screen for as long as you want, and uses your device’s microphone to provide audio in a separate file. Both the video and audio files can then be exported to the camera roll or other compatible apps installed in your device from within RecordMyScreen. Read More

Capture Periodic Screenshots Of Multiple Displays On Mac With Click

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Like every modern OS, OS X has a built-in feature for taking screenshots, making it easy for anyone to capture them. Even if you aren't happy with the default screenshot feature, you have a large number of apps (both free and paid) to choose from for the purpose as well. Click is a free app for Mac that is essentially a screenshot tool but it does what ordinary screenshot tools don't - it takes periodic screenshots of your Mac in the background, and supports multiple displays. Each display is captured separately, and you can customize how often the screenshots are taken. If you've ever needed to take periodic screenshots while watching a video or playing a video game, Click is the tool to help you do just that. Read More

oCam Makes Capturing Screenshots & Screencasts A Snap

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The use of screenshot and screencast tools has seen exponential rise during the past few years, the reason being the availability of high-speed internet in most parts of the world, allowing people to easily and swiftly share screenshots and screencasts over services like YouTube and Imgur. While we've covered a multitude of screen capturing tools in the past, only few that boast screen recording and screenshot capture under one package. oCam is one such application for Windows that's both powerful and easy to use, thanks to its simple design. It lets you overlay a capture box on your desired area of the screen, and records any on screen activity within that box. Let’s see how it works. Read More

Have Your PC Auto Capture Screenshots At User-Defined Intervals

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AddictiveTips is all about finding newer tools to help you get more productive and get more things done in lesser time. We always emphasize the importance of screenshot capturing utilities and how they can help you explain system problems to your friends or an expert. Screenshots are used in several situations; from a creating a manual to getting help on a forum, screenshots act as a visual aid to the issue under discussion. If you are a blogger, you likely know the importance of screenshots in explaining things in your blog post already. Mostly screenshot tools provide you with three modes for capturing screenshots: region capture, window capture and full screen. Auto Screenshot Capture is a screenshot app with a difference - it lets you take screenshots in succession after a custom interval, allowing you to capture ongoing screen activity. Read More

Capture & Paste Screenshots In Bulk With Screen Sniper

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While explaining something to others, words alone are often not enough and if the explanation involves computer programs, screenshots can act as a major visual aid for the process. Moreover, they are a great way to make boring and complicated tutorials easy to understand and less dull for the readers. Previously, we brought you a list of 5 best free screenshot capturing apps for Windows and today, we have another useful screenshot capturing utility for you called Screen Sniper. It allows you to take high quality screenshots with a hotkey, and provides clipboard support to store and paste multiple screenshots in one go. Keep reading to find out more about the app. Read More

Easily Edit, Watermark & Share Screenshots With Image Tools

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Image editing applications come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them provide you with color correction controls like changing the hue, brightness, contrast and saturation, while others let you apply different filters to images. The problem with comprehensive image editors such as Adobe Photoshop is that the more options they have, the more difficult it becomes to learn them. There’s also another category of image-related applications: screenshot tools. If you have been a regular reader of AddictiveTips, you must have seen us review many, specially the ones that provide something extra to the users rather than just capturing plain screenshots. Today, we have one such utility called Image Tools that allows you to capture screenshots and edit local images such as adjusting brightness, gamma, contrast, format conversion, cropping, deborder, flip/ rotate, resizing, apply watermarks etc. When you are done, you can upload the images to IMDrops image hosting service directly from the tool to share them with others with a URL. More on Image Tools after the jump. Read More

Record Multiple Mac Screens With Highlighted Clicks Using Ripcorder

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The only thing that normally stands between you and a really great screencast app for your Mac is possible the really large price tag that some of the best screen casting tools come with. It’s rather disappointing if you look at the situation; many apps in the Mac App store have paid light versions which have you pay anywhere between $1 – $5 for limited time recording of your screen. Ripcorder Screen is a free Mac App available in the Mac App Store that not only provides you unlimited recording time, but also supports multiple screens, highlights mouse clicks and allows you stop recording automatically when the custom time (set by the user, of course) runs out. The only catch here is that it doesn’t support audio recording. That might render it useless if you plan to do a voice over but if you’re just going to add music to the video later, this app is all you need. It runs in the Menu Bar and shows the entire recording in a small screen that can be hidden as per your preference. Read More

ActivePresenter Is Probably The Best Free Screencast Tool Out There

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If capturing screencasts is one of those niches that you frequently perform to create how-to guides, tutorials or other software demonstrations, then a conventional screencast tool would hardly suffice the job. What you need is something more stupendous and feature-rich, such as the Adobe Captivate or Camtasia Studio. Then again, these software solutions don’t come cheap. ActivePresenter is another alternative that you’d definitely want to give a try. Although available in Standard and Professional flavors, the Free Edition will pretty much do for most users, providing almost all the options and settings available in paid variants, with the exception of a few. ActivePresenter’s screen capturing process is not quite different from most other screencast tools that you find on the internet. However, the real fun starts in the post-production of your projects, where ActivePresenter achieves so much more than a conventional screencast utility. It’s a complete solution to capture, annotate, modify and export on-screen activity to high quality video formats. Read More

qTrace: Sophisticated Screen Capture Utility With Automatic Bug Report Logging

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If you’re a software developer, it’s better to invest more time into testing or development, rather than on documenting its usage and preparing bug reports, whichever applies to your area of work. Albeit the fact that documenting the scenario is significant, you can easily lose focus if you’re inadvertently busy in capturing screenshots and not performing the actual task. I have tinkered around with several screenshot tools, both good and abysmal, but none I could found was as unique as qTrace. It’s such a handy software testing and reporting tool that may even entirely eliminate the need to capture screencasts. The application is aimed at project managers, IT administrators, software and web developers, and/or application reviewers like me, who frequently find the need to capture various screenshots in order to define, rectify or troubleshoot a problem. Suppose you want to write a step by step application guide, qTrace can do wonders by automatically grabbing all the screenshots for you, which itself is a great time-saver. For that matter, it can also let you submit defect tickets to various supported trackers, such as Assembla, Bugzilla, Fogbugz, HP Quality Center, QASymphony’s qTest, Rally etc. Similarly, it comes with Dropbox integration to automatically save the bug reports to the cloud storage. Continue reading for more details. Read More

WebSnap: Capture Selective Or Full Websites & View Them In A Live Widget [Android]

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With the previously reviewed SnowDeer Web Scrapper, we have already seen how to effectively capture snapshots of an entire webpage on Android. Though quite helpful in its own respect, said tool was effective only in situations that demanded grabbing snapshots of the complete page. What if you were to capture a specific area or elements of the required website? New to the Play Store, WebSnap is a promising Android app that makes capturing select parts of any webpage as easy as one-two-three. Just like SnowDeer, WebSnap comes with a built-in browser that you can use to explore and capture virtually any part of the required website. It also supports UA String selection to help you quickly switch between mobile and desktop layout of the current website. In addition, it provides easy-to-use navigation controls, supports pinch-to-zoom gestures, and lets you natively manage, preview and share your snapshots. All aforementioned features aside, the mainstay of WebSnap remains its nifty little dynamic homescreen widget that not only sports the captured view of your preferred website, but can also be set to automatically update as per user-defined intervals. Read More

Free Screenshot Capture Includes A Color Picker, Ruler, Protractor & Other Extra Tools

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One type of Windows applications that intrigue me a lot are Screenshot utilities. For me as a reviewer, screenshot tools let me demonstrate each and everything to my readers, in a simple way. Back in March, Fawad compiled a list of 5 of the best screenshot utilities for Windows. It looks like we have another winner on our hands, simply labeled as Free Screenshot Capture. Aside from being a screen capturing utility, this nifty little tool comes packed with various unique options including Webcam Capture, Protractor, Color Picker, Ruler, Magnifier, Brightness adjuster and a Whiteboard. Also included is a Screen Capture with Delay option, which enables the tool to automatically trigger the capture instance after a defined amount of time. It fully supports global hotkeys, letting you easily and instantly take the screenshots. The application sits in the system tray to provide you with quick screenshot capture modes and options. Read More

ShareX: Grab Screenshots Using Several Capture Modes & Upload To 20+ Image Sharing Services

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Back in 2009, we covered a screenshot capturing tool called ZScreen. The utility garnered instant acclaim due to its ability to not only capture high resolution screenshots, but also upload them directly to over 20 different sites or your FTP server. The author of this tool, who also happens to be the author of ZUploader - has stopped adding new features to both applications, and incorporated the most salient features of both tools (ZScreen and ZUploader) into a single software named ShareX. It is an open-source utility that lets you take screenshots, and send them to the Windows clipboard, save them at any local location, or upload captured images directly to 20+ different image sharing websites including Imgur, Flicker, Twitpic, Dropbox, Pastebin and more. Moreover, you can also choose to share the screenshots via email or to upload it to FTP server. Unlike conventional screen capture utilities, you can take screenshots in different shapes (rounded, eclipse, triangular and so on). The application sits in the system tray, and allows you to take screenshots using simple hotkey combinations. Read More

Schirmfoto: Screenshot Taking, Editing & Sharing App With A Metro UI

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Screenshot taking tools come in many shapes and sizes. Some of them provide you with a lot of options for editing the screenshots, while others provide you with a quick way to upload the image online and share it with others. We have covered numerous types of screen capturing utilities, which provide you with different sets of features to take, edit and annotate captured images, and save them to local or remote locations. Today, we stumbled across another awesome screenshot taking tool with a Metro UI design, called Schirmfoto. It allows users to quickly take screenshots, edit them, add annotations and shapes such as Text, Arrows, Rectangles, Circles, Crop images and upload them to Facebook, Twitter or Schirmfoto cloud storage directly from within the application. Keep reading to find out more about Schrimfoto. Read More

Image Snatcher: Take Screenshots & Instantly Upload Them To The Web

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Screenshot capturing tools are an excellent way of making things understandable for others, as they say "A picture is worth a thousand words", so where words fail, screenshots can help you out. This is one of the reasons that we keep covering a wide array of such tools from time to time for you guys. Among those that we have reviewed so far, Shotty (reviewed here) and GreenShot (reviewed here) are the ones that we found to have the best combination of both features, and simplicity. But talking about simplicity, there's another one in town, that might hold the crown to have a very minimalistic design for a screenshot utility. Labeled as Image Snatcher, it is yet another such screen capturing tool that - along with being very user-friendly - might claim a top spot among your favorite screen capturing tools. It allows you to grab any part of the screen and instantly upload it to the web, so you can easily share it with your friends and colleagues over the internet. It’s a portable application which means you can save it on a flash drive and take it anywhere you want, and on top of that it comes with quite simple controls. In fact, it has no interface at all; just fire it up, grab a snippet and share. Let’s dig in and find out how it works. Read More

[Giveaway] Video Flow: Create Screencasts, Split/Merge & Annotate Them [Mac]

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If you’re in the market for an amazing screen casting tool, look no further than Video Flow for Mac OS X. The app is a video creation and editing tool, which allows you to create screencasts, annotate them with text, and add videos or audio files to your screencast, or simply annotate existing videos that you may have downloaded or recorded yourself. The app lets you split videos, and also supports video-in-video frame sets (whereby you can start a video within the current one),  truly setting itself apart from its peers. It allows you to resize your screencasts to the right size for viewing on an iPod, iPhone, iPad or YouTube. Additionally, when saving your file, you can choose the frame rate it should be saved with. The available range is from 10 to 45 fps. The only downside is the rather hefty price tag, which stands currently at $50, but you can skip that if you're lucky enough to win a license in our giveaway. Read More

iorad Records Actions In Any App & Auto-Creates An Annotated Tutorial Out Of Them [Web]

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Creating tutorials or screencasts is no longer difficult, but with so many tools available for just about every platform you can imagine, a tutorial is no longer about just getting the steps involved. They’ve gotten more complex, and an interactive tutorial is probably your best bet at engaging your audience. iorad is an amazing web application that lets you create excellent tutorials using just your internet browser. As opposed to installing applications, this app works through your browser but can record actions in any application installed on your system. Strictly speaking, the app is not a screen casting tool. With every mouse and keyboard movement, it automatically takes screenshots of each action and its resulting effect or outcome, adding a brief description for each. Actions such as typing, scrolling and clicking are all recorded, with the added feature of encrypting the text you type to protect your privacy. The tutorial can be edited once it’s done, so you can further annotate and delete the screenshots that you feel are unnecessary. The app is excellent, although a bit slow, and requires the latest version of Java to be installed on your machine. Read More